Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty

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Autor(a) principal: Fabri,Eric
Data de Publicação: 2015
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: This article examines the institutions of private property in a Property-Owning Democracy (POD). It aims at determining in which system, POD or Welfare State Capitalism (WSC), the requirements of the arguments justifying private property rights are better satisfied. It had been classically argued that private property rights are legitimate (a) because the worker has a (natural) right on the fruits of his labour (the labour justification), (b) because securing private property rights implements a structure of economic incentives that ultimately benefits all individuals in the society (the efficiency justification), and (c) because private property promotes individual autonomy (the liberty justification). In the different sections of this article, I briefly sketch the logic of each argument and examine how it is satisfied or not in a POD in comparison to WSC. My conclusion is that on many aspects, a POD better fulfills the requirements of those three arguments than does WSC.
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spelling Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and LibertyProperty-Owning DemocracyProperty RightsPrivate PropertyLabour JustificationRawlsThis article examines the institutions of private property in a Property-Owning Democracy (POD). It aims at determining in which system, POD or Welfare State Capitalism (WSC), the requirements of the arguments justifying private property rights are better satisfied. It had been classically argued that private property rights are legitimate (a) because the worker has a (natural) right on the fruits of his labour (the labour justification), (b) because securing private property rights implements a structure of economic incentives that ultimately benefits all individuals in the society (the efficiency justification), and (c) because private property promotes individual autonomy (the liberty justification). In the different sections of this article, I briefly sketch the logic of each argument and examine how it is satisfied or not in a POD in comparison to WSC. My conclusion is that on many aspects, a POD better fulfills the requirements of those three arguments than does WSC.Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho2015-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articletext/htmlhttp://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0807-89672015000200004Revista Diacrítica v.29 n.2 2015reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttp://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0807-89672015000200004Fabri,Ericinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2024-02-06T16:58:43Zoai:scielo:S0807-89672015000200004Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:15:19.992225Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
spellingShingle Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
Fabri,Eric
Property-Owning Democracy
Property Rights
Private Property
Labour Justification
Rawls
title_short Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
title_full Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
title_fullStr Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
title_full_unstemmed Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
title_sort Legitimating Property Rights in a Property-Owning Democracy: Labour, Efficiency and Liberty
author Fabri,Eric
author_facet Fabri,Eric
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fabri,Eric
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Property-Owning Democracy
Property Rights
Private Property
Labour Justification
Rawls
topic Property-Owning Democracy
Property Rights
Private Property
Labour Justification
Rawls
description This article examines the institutions of private property in a Property-Owning Democracy (POD). It aims at determining in which system, POD or Welfare State Capitalism (WSC), the requirements of the arguments justifying private property rights are better satisfied. It had been classically argued that private property rights are legitimate (a) because the worker has a (natural) right on the fruits of his labour (the labour justification), (b) because securing private property rights implements a structure of economic incentives that ultimately benefits all individuals in the society (the efficiency justification), and (c) because private property promotes individual autonomy (the liberty justification). In the different sections of this article, I briefly sketch the logic of each argument and examine how it is satisfied or not in a POD in comparison to WSC. My conclusion is that on many aspects, a POD better fulfills the requirements of those three arguments than does WSC.
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